Can Elon Musk Get Out of Buying Twitter?
Last week, Elon Musk announced that he was pulling out of his $44 billion agreement to purchase Twitter. Today, we explore why a company that once tried to fend off this acquisition is now trying to f...
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On Abortion Laws, It All Goes Back to 2010
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the court’s conservative majority argued it was simply handing the question of abortion to the states and their voters to decide for themselves.But in re...
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The Sunday Read: ‘The Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground’
Warning of imminent ecological catastrophe, the Earth Liberation Front became notorious in the late 1990s for setting fire to symbols of ecological destruction, including timber mills, an S.U.V. deale...
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The Final Days of Boris Johnson
After a flurry of ministerial resignations and calls from members of his own party for his departure, Boris Johnson agreed on Thursday to resign as prime minister of Britain.During his tenure, Mr. Joh...
8 Heinä 202231min
An Anti-Abortion Campaigner on the Movement’s Historic Win
After Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, a group of conservative lawyers embarked on what would become a decades-long mission to reverse the ruling.One of those lawyers, James Bopp, explains how they su...
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How Brittney Griner Became a Political Pawn
Brittney Griner, the American W.N.B.A. star who has been detained in Russia since February, recently sent a letter to President Biden. “I’m terrified I might be here forever,” she wrote.The White Hous...
6 Heinä 202229min
The Promises and Pitfalls of the New Gun Law
President Biden has heralded the recent gun safety bill as the most significant federal attempt to reduce gun violence in 30 years.But after a gunman opened fire from a rooftop onto a Fourth of July p...
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An Abortion Rights Champion of the 1970s on Life Before and After Roe
A little over 50 years ago, Nancy Stearns, a young lawyer, was presenting a case in New York with a bold legal assertion: that the right to abortion was fundamental to equal rights for women.She never...
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